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Wanted: ventilation team for buildings post corona
KTH Live-In Lab wants to find partners interested in how to ensure risk free indoor space during a challenge such as the corona virus. Published Feb 03, 2021Will ventilation systems in future buildings be designed in a different way to minimize spread of bacteria and virus? This question is raised by KTH Live-In Lab who’s looking for new partners to solve...
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Crowdfunded women better at reaching funding goals
Published Feb 02, 2021Backed up by women, female entrepreneurs at crowdfunding platforms reach their funding goals more often than men. Hadar Gafni at the Department of Industrial Economics and Management has mapped the ge...
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Successful PhD defence by Jenny Gabriela Pena Balderrama
Published Feb 02, 2021On the 18th December 2020, Jenny Gabriela Pena Balderrama from the division of Energy Systems KTH-dES, successfully defended her PhD thesis on the topic “Exploring low-carbon development pathways for ...
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Testing the transport system of the future
Chirag Savant, researcher and responsible for the three vehicle platforms at ITRL, controls the RCV-E platform outside the centre. Photo: Alexandra von Kern. Published Jan 27, 2021Transport is a rapidly developing area with self-driving cars and robots around the corner. It also affects everyone in society. The research centre ITRL provides society and industry with the basis f...
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FAO Water-Energy-Food Nexus Webinar series
Published Jan 26, 2021This FAO series — organized in collaboration with SEI and KTH Royal Institute of Technology — introduces nexus concepts and gives examples of current efforts and best practices in the Near East and No...
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Design students create services for online learning
The project results are presented in eight films. There are suggestions for platforms for finding study buddies or have a coffee with new people and lecture studios for teachers, to mention a couple. Published Jan 26, 2021This year the master students in the Advanced Service Design got a special assignment from their teachers. The result: eight suggestions that really would improve online learning.
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Wave energy benefits from the mistakes of wind power
Next in line to do the same journey as wind and solar power might be ocean wave energy. Photo: Cor-Power Published Jan 20, 2021Is wave energy the new star of renewables? The potential is great and a research team at KTH works towards a faster development for harvesting the powers of the seas.
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All about Competence Centres
Published Jan 11, 2021Why do research in certain areas lead to competence centres and how do they work within the centres? Today a series of articles starts where you can learn about all of the ITM school's competence cent...
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Communication course clarifies the benefits of your research
Published Dec 22, 2020More and more researchers understand the importance of being able to communicate their research to the surrounding society. With the course Communicating Research Beyond the Academy, doctoral students...
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INDEK researcher interviewed in Swedish newspaper about negative emissions
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Impressive projects in mechatronic’s “Grand Finale”
Published Dec 14, 2020As most events these days, the “The Grand Finale”, the demo session of the Mechatronic Capstone Course was given digitally. Despite that, spirit was up when efforts and hard work from almost a year we...
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The autonomous forest machines are here
Self driving forest machines are both more efficient than classic machines, and reduce the amount of ground damage. Photo: eXtractor. Published Dec 11, 2020Researchers and students from KTH have been involved in the development of a new autonomous forest machine that picks up timber. They have both developed the software in the prototype called XT28 that...
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Chang Su makes district heating more sustainable
Published Dec 08, 2020Chang Su's IRIS related research about the decarbonization of the Swedish district heating sector has received funding from the Swedish Energy Agency.
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EGI writes energy history with the heat pump
The heat pump technology would prove to be a good fit in the country of Sweden, mainly due to our cold climate. Photo: Malin on Unsplash Published Dec 08, 2020The oil crisis of the 70s marked the start of an energy transition where the heat pump would become something of a success story in Sweden. Björn Palm at the Department of Energy Technology (EGI) talk...
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Emma Nyholm Humire receives best thesis award
Published Dec 04, 2020Emma Nyholm Humire has received her best thesis award - Ebbe Lyths Stipendium at Svenska Kyl och Värmepump dagen.
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Joakim Odqvist new Professor
Published Dec 01, 2020KTH has appointed new Professors and among them, one belongs to Materials Science and Engineering. Our new Professor Joakim Odqvist explains why structural transformation of metals matters and how it ...
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Informing designs for learning when shifting to digital
Published Nov 26, 2020My best advice to teachers that shift to digital during these Covid times, is to take a moment and look into 'what is known', and to continuously reflect on and evaluate your teaching practice.
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Meet Cali Nuur – INDEK’s new reluctant boss
From January 1, 2021, Cali Nuur is the new Head of Department for Industrial economics and management. Published Nov 25, 2020As from January, Cali Nuur will lead the Department of Industrial economics and management (INDEK) when Matti Kaulio steps back. Despite the fact that he’ll be the manager of a institution that teache...
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Alumni meet-up confirms life after graduation
Published Nov 18, 2020There is a life after graduation. This was clear at the alumni meetup for the Master program Sustainable energy engineering, SEE on Friday. Alumni, faculty and currents students, met on zoom for inspi...
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Climate footprint can be cut by half with co-living
Shared areas such as kitchen and dining rooms can reduce climate footprint and facilitate social gatherings. Photo of Testbed Akademiska Hus by Alexandra von Kern Published Nov 18, 2020The climate footprint per person can be reduced by more than 50 percent if the homes are designed to share common areas such as kitchens and bathrooms. This is shown by research from KTH in Live-In La...
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